Studies and exploration by the Geology Public Foundation affirmed existence of mineral Resources may change the energy equation in Syria.

Eng. Sufian Allaw oil minister stressed that Syria has large quantities of oil shale was discovered recently in al-Khanaser area in Aleppo and extend over large areas and close to the surface of the ground and not in the quantities that are existed in Daraa and in the depths of a large agricultural area, making the feasibility of investing in non-economic. Jamal al –Deiri Geology Director-General said that Oil Shale oil is that organic compounds composed of in most of the components of oil like gas and bitumen . he said that Shale could be one of the most important oil alternatives for future energy production and the petrochemical industries,
He added that the new discoveries are located to the south-east of Aleppo, a distance of 103 km in the Khanasr – Rajm al –Sawan of an area along with a large area of the site is approximately 150 km 2 from South Alazami protected.

And the expected quantitie al- Deiri said: we can talk in the light of work carried out to date with the implementation of a geological reconnaissance of an area of 11 km 2 was the implementation of the topography and the development of a network consisting of 15 wells separated by 1 km and found the result that the thickness of cover over Shale oil ranging from 23 -43 m, one of the least Thicknesses ranged Shale oil layer thickness of between 150-219 meters With regard to the proportion of oil was 11.9% and the thermal energy 6452 J / g and the proportion of rock lost 84.5%.

 
And quantities as the initial studies are estimated at billions of tons, which is economic quantities, but we can not give an exact figure may exceed the figure of 50 billion tons have to say, as indicators of exploration, but it is almost certainly so farstudied for the region around 2.5 billion ton